[Zope] Project FTP Site

[Reini Urban]

Hi Robert and Michael,

Me too. (Robert and me are wellknown AutoCAD folks btw.)

What I have to do sooner or later (later probably), is to up and download
DWG's, inspect DWG with win32com, retrieving some properties (size, bounding
box, layer, ...) and create a clickable image with boxes representing the
DWG. 
this is for our surveyors here. some students upload their DWG's in a very
bad condition (random dots or blocks at 0,0. inconsistent layer standards,
...) 
we have about 2000 students contributing to this (building the digital
city graz). the DWG inspection (in windows servers only of course) could be of
interest to others as well.

I on the other hand need some more time to get accustomed to the CMF way,
only having grokked ZPT recently.


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Robert Rottermann wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> I am working on a similar project. So we could join forces.
> I am doing it with CMF. However there are a lot of things yet missing or not
> yet very much in line for a file exchange board.
> One of the problem is, that peaople are used to send files as mail
> attachements. This is of course the easies way.
> Tough it has lots of drawbacks it is what people are used to, and you have
> to make your new service as easy to use as that. (or people will keep
> sending files as mail attachments)
> Secondly you need a kind of  workgroups to which you can assign rigths
> common folders and the like.
> 
> I did set up something for a customer of ours (they do not really use it
> yet) I created a transfer area to which people from inside and outside have
> access (afer loging in). So if you want to send somebody a file you put it
> to the transfer area and send the the peron to recieve it an email with a
> link.
> 
> I you are interested I will put what we have don on our server so you can
> have a look at it.
> Robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Montagne, Michael" <montagne@BOORA.com>
> To: "'Ausum'" <augusto@artlover.com>; <zope@zope.org>; "Montagne, Michael"
> <montagne@BOORA.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:23 AM
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Project FTP Site
> 
> 
> > Yes, I've tinkered with CMF, shows much promise.  I had trouble though,
> > finding documentation to help me set it up.  Specifically, I couldn't
> figure
> > out how to create a consistent home page for the site that all users see.
> > From there they can go to their own sites.  And in this case, Even the
> sites
> > for each project would look very similar, but with different content.
> They
> > would not be customizable by the visitors.What is the best source for
> docs?
> >
> > -mjm
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ausum [mailto:augusto@artlover.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:11 PM
> > To: zope@zope.org; montagne@BOORA.com
> > Subject: Re: [Zope] Project FTP Site
> >
> >
> > You have in hands a nice opportunity to start using CMF, like it is right
> > now, out of the box.
> > CMF is a portal framework that allows their users to upload every content
> > they want to a folder of their own, and publish what they want; and by
> > having the Autocad drawings exposed through http and not ftp, your users
> > will have the chance to review them online, using the browser plugin. All
> > the dwgs (as any other content type) will have metadata to help their
> > finding, and also all of them will be discussable, if you want it, and the
> > discussion items will be searchable as well. (as any picture, document,
> > news, etc,  is) Doesn't it sound good enough?  :)
> >
> > There's an issue if you don't want to use the default login manager/users
> > base. But that's something you'll work out with the help of the list.
> >
> >
> > Ausum
> >
> >
> >
> > "Montagne, Michael" wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is my problem:
> > > I need to create a project site for an archiectural office.  The primary
> > > purpose is File Transfer.  Each firm participating in the project will
> > have
> > > a folder to upload files to.  They may also download from the other
> > folders,
> > > but not upload.  The files are primarily AutoCad drawings.  There also
> > needs
> > > to be the capability to send emails to groups of people notifying them
> of
> > > file transfers.  These people are stored currently in an access
> database.
> > > Yes, my platform is winNT. There are other functions i promised to
> include
> > > but those are the main ones.
> > > Unfortunately, I don't even know where to begin.  I know that zope has
> an
> > > FTP server so I chimed in "Of course we can do that, we'll use zope!!"
> > > I need some suggestions.
> > >
> > > -mjm

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Reini Urban
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